It'd would be more generally useful if it only came with a OpenGL ES enabled GRUB + a micro Linux environment prepared with machine virtualization, which would run, semi-transparently, the other OSs by default, unless overrided.
Then it all comes back to mimicking what humans do in bilingual environments, and what they(we) use to do well at that: We just think in that language.
Only perl can parse Perl, only human[-based] interpreters can parse human languages.
So what's stopping you installing those easy to use SuSE tools on Ubuntu? After, that's the great thing about open source and standards right? Open Source? Yes. Standardized? No fricking way.
LSB? FHS? Beautiful things, but each distro's configuration is done in whole different way (file and dir names and etc).
A senior admin in one distro will be completely lost in another distro. The only garanteed thing are the core low-level GNU utils.
To be honest, with the current state the eletronic mailing is now, I'd like all the major mailers to have a whitelist of digitally signed domains whose e-mails shall accepted, and whose accounts should be uncompromised.
I know it's extreme, techinically impossible to implement and will piss off millions, specially domain owners, but spamming, and phishing and all sorts of internet crime attacks do play a major role in the worldwide modern economy.
Do you realize parallism also involves algorithms, and for certain, much more threads than the "old" paradigm? Parallel computing is old too. And I mean really old, which isn't a bad thing per se.
I don't think we need a revolution in chip-making, we need programmers that know how to program correctly in parallel, colaborative, streamlined and networked models; and easy-to-program languages with true, OS-supported multithreading, with easy-to-put-together libraries to help them at that.
Gimme that programming language with components as easy to put together as LEGOs, and I shall declare the winner.
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They believe in security through obscurity, which is as secure as todays DRM... however, since no one seems to be interested in breaking it, it remains like that.
Maybe in that kind of P2P file sharing, Japan is leading, but there are always other [worldwide] networks, perhaps not so file sharing-oriented:
That's weird, I just read today a bank from Brazil adopting a voice recognition system to bill their clients.
"The software, created by VoxAge, reads some of the client's data, call him and then asks his name and other stuff. Then, depending on his answers, the client is forwarded to a call center."
I'd say both Microsoft and that software do the same thing, transform the voice into data, then analyze it with some other data previously stored in a database.
I believe you should read more than just that table. It's very naive of you to think they are going to keep cool until 2009, that would be true if their growth rate was 0.
The same page says the Wikimedia Foundation is going to spend $1,670,000 in hardware until June 07, plus projections of $62,000 to $100,000 in bandwidth per month, $27,000 for setup + $38,000/mo in hosting, $100,000/mo hiring + $300,000 for other expenditures.
June 07 predictions == $1,997,000 + ($200,000 ~ $238,000)/mo
The article is misleading, not all the connections from Brazil are blocked, only the ones which pass through the Brasil Telecom's backbone (one of the major internet providers here in Brazil), which I am one of its customers.
It's not really hard to bypass it, we just need to configure a proxy (but judging the average level of knowledge the internet population, that might be a challenge).
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI.br will soon say something about the matter, pretty much telling the justice, here, went way too far in this matter.
Personally I'm ashamed by this episode; out of the three powers, I consider Judiciary the most intelligent; even if was a Tribunal of State of São Paulo behind the order, and not the Federal ones(which I regard highly), they should know it better.
Just tell Youtube to take down the videos and the uploaders, and perhaps hand over the names and IPs of the Brazilian uploaders so only they are prosecuted. Leave the rest of Brazil out of this.
Anyways, does the Brazilian justice have any rights over something filmed in a Spanish _public_ beach, involving an Brazilian model, posted in an American site? It's okay you want to protect the intimacy of one person, but that shouldn't go over the rights of thousands of others.
Space colonization is one of the greatest and most ancient dreams of the humanity. It's probably the ultimate long term goal of all human civilizations, and it's not even surprising that some Sid Meier's games replicate that goal.
The concept of faster than light travel is not that ancient(because we just found it recently), but that's just another thing we expect to figure out anyways, since it's almost required for the dream cited above.
I don't know if we can solve the poverty and war problems in the meantime, but I'm pretty sure the AIDS, Cancer and some other diseases can be. After all, robotic nanotechnology and human genetics advances are another expected dreams.
I think I'll be long gone before all those great things happen, unless cloning and mind transfer breakthroughs happen first, but I'd love to see all that happen, as will the many generations after me.
It's just a matter of time... a lot of time. It's not really a problem unless we are in a hurry.
According to the Chinese gov, the correct news would state that they make 69% of the world's spam, USA 24%, and less than 7%, the other 200+ countries that import from them.
Well, even is one country is at 0.001%, I'd still bet they deliver billions of emails a day.
My wave physics knowledge may be lacking, but don't things that what go through walls require them to be at a pretty high energetic state and extremely low wavelenghts? Wouldn't that lead to health hazards or something?
It might be like what cell phones do, but cell phones don't stay 24/7 on a call.
IMH experience, computers either have 300+ items of spyware (if they've never been scanned), or they have ZERO (if they have a spyware scan program or three, or have no outside Web access).
Really, if you want to have Zero malware in your PC, all you need is a trained working brain.
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It'd would be more generally useful if it only came with a OpenGL ES enabled GRUB + a micro Linux environment prepared with machine virtualization, which would run, semi-transparently, the other OSs by default, unless overrided.
Then it all comes back to mimicking what humans do in bilingual environments, and what they(we) use to do well at that: We just think in that language.
Only perl can parse Perl, only human[-based] interpreters can parse human languages.
LSB? FHS? Beautiful things, but each distro's configuration is done in whole different way (file and dir names and etc).
A senior admin in one distro will be completely lost in another distro. The only garanteed thing are the core low-level GNU utils.
Phase 1: Build Google Earth
Phase 2: Build My World on top of Google Earth
Phase 3: Let the users create content that replicates the data in the World , take pictures, erect buildings, etc.
Phase 4: When sufficiently advanced, advertise My World as World 2.0.
Phase 5: Move the users to World 2.0. Plug cables in their heads, keep them fed with red liquids.
Phase 6: Advertise more Green Computing, have the users donate their bodies to generate energy to feed the system.
Phase 7: Sell virtual black leather and black shades.
Phase n: ???
Phase n +1: Profit? Google needs no stinkin' profit.
{{citation needed}}
To be honest, with the current state the eletronic mailing is now, I'd like all the major mailers to have a whitelist of digitally signed domains whose e-mails shall accepted, and whose accounts should be uncompromised.
I know it's extreme, techinically impossible to implement and will piss off millions, specially domain owners, but spamming, and phishing and all sorts of internet crime attacks do play a major role in the worldwide modern economy.
Do you realize parallism also involves algorithms, and for certain, much more threads than the "old" paradigm? Parallel computing is old too. And I mean really old, which isn't a bad thing per se.
I don't think we need a revolution in chip-making, we need programmers that know how to program correctly in parallel, colaborative, streamlined and networked models; and easy-to-program languages with true, OS-supported multithreading, with easy-to-put-together libraries to help them at that.
Gimme that programming language with components as easy to put together as LEGOs, and I shall declare the winner.
They believe in security through obscurity, which is as secure as todays DRM... however, since no one seems to be interested in breaking it, it remains like that.
n ymous_P2P_clients
Maybe in that kind of P2P file sharing, Japan is leading, but there are always other [worldwide] networks, perhaps not so file sharing-oriented:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P#Pseudo
You pretty much described Winny with a better interface and mainstream support.
In all honesty, del.icio.us is a better search engine than what Google and other algorithmical engines ever hope to be.
That's weird, I just read today a bank from Brazil adopting a voice recognition system to bill their clients.
"The software, created by VoxAge, reads some of the client's data, call him and then asks his name and other stuff. Then, depending on his answers, the client is forwarded to a call center."
I'd say both Microsoft and that software do the same thing, transform the voice into data, then analyze it with some other data previously stored in a database.
I believe you should read more than just that table. It's very naive of you to think they are going to keep cool until 2009, that would be true if their growth rate was 0.
The same page says the Wikimedia Foundation is going to spend $1,670,000 in hardware until June 07, plus projections of $62,000 to $100,000 in bandwidth per month, $27,000 for setup + $38,000/mo in hosting, $100,000/mo hiring + $300,000 for other expenditures.
June 07 predictions == $1,997,000 + ($200,000 ~ $238,000)/mo
The article is misleading, not all the connections from Brazil are blocked, only the ones which pass through the Brasil Telecom's backbone (one of the major internet providers here in Brazil), which I am one of its customers.
It's not really hard to bypass it, we just need to configure a proxy (but judging the average level of knowledge the internet population, that might be a challenge).
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI.br will soon say something about the matter, pretty much telling the justice, here, went way too far in this matter.
Personally I'm ashamed by this episode; out of the three powers, I consider Judiciary the most intelligent; even if was a Tribunal of State of São Paulo behind the order, and not the Federal ones(which I regard highly), they should know it better.
Just tell Youtube to take down the videos and the uploaders, and perhaps hand over the names and IPs of the Brazilian uploaders so only they are prosecuted. Leave the rest of Brazil out of this.
Anyways, does the Brazilian justice have any rights over something filmed in a Spanish _public_ beach, involving an Brazilian model, posted in an American site? It's okay you want to protect the intimacy of one person, but that shouldn't go over the rights of thousands of others.
You go XFree86 on the FOSS community, the FOSS community goes X.Org on you.
Guess who wins... 6 months later you don't even hear about the former one anymore.
Space colonization is one of the greatest and most ancient dreams of the humanity. It's probably the ultimate long term goal of all human civilizations, and it's not even surprising that some Sid Meier's games replicate that goal.
The concept of faster than light travel is not that ancient(because we just found it recently), but that's just another thing we expect to figure out anyways, since it's almost required for the dream cited above.
I don't know if we can solve the poverty and war problems in the meantime, but I'm pretty sure the AIDS, Cancer and some other diseases can be. After all, robotic nanotechnology and human genetics advances are another expected dreams.
I think I'll be long gone before all those great things happen, unless cloning and mind transfer breakthroughs happen first, but I'd love to see all that happen, as will the many generations after me.
It's just a matter of time... a lot of time. It's not really a problem unless we are in a hurry.
According to the Chinese gov, the correct news would state that they make 69% of the world's spam, USA 24%, and less than 7%, the other 200+ countries that import from them.
Well, even is one country is at 0.001%, I'd still bet they deliver billions of emails a day.
My wave physics knowledge may be lacking, but don't things that what go through walls require them to be at a pretty high energetic state and extremely low wavelenghts? Wouldn't that lead to health hazards or something?
It might be like what cell phones do, but cell phones don't stay 24/7 on a call.
In fact, this is an interesting question.
If the hardware is really proved to be a souped-up GameCube hardware, then a working Beowulf cluster of Wiis might not be that far.
More interesting, it would be a wireless cluster. Neat, eh?
Really, if you want to have Zero malware in your PC, all you need is a trained working brain.
Works all the time, helps in real life too.
You're surely underestimationg our geeky definition for worth, what geek wouldn't want new faster power-saving RAMs?
Now only if it was cheap... (-:
Am I the only one concerned how this could bring new meanings to 'Kernel Panic'?
Hopefully it will be named Persephone, for the delight of Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke's and Star Trek fans.
You know this technology will be a big hit in the porn industry when the big man of the area says
"There has to be a good reason to use speech, maybe your hands are full"
Now, what if the mouth is full too? Ventriloquism?